Starve Them!

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

In the finals 1057 began "intercepting" opposing robots who were trying to slam into 1261, giving the #1 alliance an even more impressive advantage during autonomous (and allowing them to win the Peachtree regional).

This is the "pick" strategy that 293 tried with one other team (we were the shooter) in a qualification match in Annapolis. It was not necessary, however, as our opponent did not try to defend us in autonomous as expected. A tip of the cap to the alliance that pulled it off successfully; I wish I was there to see it.

In elimination rounds, we made at least two shots every time in autonomous (except when we forgot to change the battery before SF2-01) even though we got rammed every time, and on two occasions we made every ball we shot except the first. One of those was the 42-point autonomous period (before bonus) where 293 and 103 combined to make 14 balls in the center goal. Unfortunately, that match was restarted because the light didn't come on after autonomous.